Word: airings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with France in any age. The cradle of modern revolution and free speech had, through the Gaullists' abuse of their power over the state-owned radio and television networks, one of the free world's most tightly controlled public information centers. Politicians who opposed De Gaulle were rarely accorded air time, and pro-Gaullist propaganda assaults filled prime time during election campaigns. Another arbiter of public taste turned out to be De Gaulle's prudish wife Yvonne. For her influence in banning sex from TV, banishing dirty books from Left Bank bookstalls and chasing Paris' famed streetwalkers into periodic hiding...
...were pressing on toward their next camp. Then came the first mishap: Deputy Leader William A. Read, of Moose, Wyo., was suddenly blinded in the right eye by pulmonary edema, which sometimes strikes men who go too high too fast. Read left to await evacuation by air...
China's Communists are not much noted for a sense of humor, but there must have been at least a glimmer of a smile when they elected a former U.S. Air Force colonel as an alternate member of the party's Central Committee. The colonel in question is Dr. Chien Hsueh-shen, a product of M.I.T. and Caltech. Chien, who was commissioned in the U.S.A.F. during World War II, headed a missile-research team in Germany at war's end. In 1955, he was expelled from the U.S. as a suspected Communist. Since then he has made...
...Latin American Presidents ever traveled their constituencies quite as thoroughly or as constantly as René Barrientos Ortuño of Bolivia. Barrientos chose this peripatetic presidency, which carried him even into isolated outposts, because he was a man of action; an ex-air-force officer, he infinitely preferred an airplane cockpit to his desk at Quemado Palace...
Final Wave. Barrientos liked to brag that he had walked away from 25 air crashes of one kind or another. Last week, making one of his rural visits, he failed to survive the 26th. Traveling by helicopter with a pilot and military aide, he landed on a basketball court in the Andean village of Arque. He dedicated a school honoring John F. Kennedy and a new public health dispensary, presented money for a town water-supply system and paused briefly for refreshments and handshaking. Then, with a final wave, he departed for the village of Tacopaya, 25 miles away. Rising...